Stranger Issues cocreator Ross Duffer’s spouse, Leigh Janiak, has filed for divorce after 9 years of marriage.
Janiak, 44, filed the authorized paperwork on Friday, February 23, in accordance with paperwork obtained by TMZ. She listed the date of separation as TBD, citing “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale for the cut up. She is asking for spousal assist, per the outlet.
Duffer, 40, met Janiak in 2006 when the duo labored as an intern and producer’s assistant, respectively, at a Los Angeles manufacturing firm. The couple tied the knot at Korakia Pensione, a resort in Palm Springs, California, in 2015. Jennifer Knode, a good friend of the couple who grew to become a Common Life minister for the occasion, officiated the nuptials, in accordance with The New York Instances.
Each Duffer and Janiak are greatest identified for his or her writing prowess, with Janiak being the inventive drive behind 2014’s Honeymoon and Netflix’s Concern Avenue Trilogy. Duffer, in the meantime, serves as cocreator, showrunner, government producer and director for Stranger Factors alongside his brother, Matt Duffer.
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Season 5 of the sci-fi sequence resumed manufacturing in Atlanta final month. Filming was initially scheduled to kick off in Could 2023 however was postponed as a result of WGA and SAG-AFRTRA strikes, which got here to an finish in September 2023 and November 2023, respectively.
With manufacturing again on monitor, Stranger Issues’ fifth season is more likely to premiere someday in 2025. Whereas talking with The Wrap in Could 2022, Ross and Matt revealed that closing installment will return to its roots.
“The ultimate few [episodes of the show] are going to be extra like a Return of the Jedi. Not tonally, however simply when it comes to — They’re going from the start,” Matt informed the outlet. “There’s going to be much less ramp up. And I feel individuals will perceive what I’m speaking about once they see the top of season 4. It’s like, we’re simply going.”
Netflix’s Concern Avenue franchise is much from over and Us is prepared for extra spooky tales. The streamer acquired the films, that are primarily based on R. L. Stine‘s e-book sequence of the identical identify, after they had been already shot back-to-back. Concern Avenue was initially meant to be launched in theaters one month aside to attract […]
“There’s a number of build-up and set-up [each season],” Ross added, “and season 5 is simply going to be pedal to the metallic from the opening scene.”
Two months later, the duo introduced that after venturing out to locations like Russia and California all through season 4, the present can be taking issues again to its central location of Hawkins, Indiana.
“I feel one of many issues that’s thrilling about season 5 is [that] season 4 was attention-grabbing to us as a result of everybody was scattered to the winds,” Matt informed Collider in July 2022. “That’s what was distinctive about it. However that is about everybody lastly coming again. Coming again collectively, coming again to Hawkins. … There’s one thing attention-grabbing to re-explore a few of the season one dynamics once more, besides on this grander scale.”
As for what comes subsequent for Ross, he and Matt fashioned Upside Down Footage, a brand new manufacturing firm by means of which they may develop movie and TV tasks as a part of an total cope with Netflix, in July 2022. That features the stage play Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, which hit the stage in December 2023, and a Stranger Issues spinoff, though particulars on the sequence are being saved underneath wraps.
Janiak, in the meantime, will possible be targeted on the brand new set of Concern Avenue motion pictures greenlit by Netflix final month, that are set to set to be tailored from R.L. Stine’s 1992 novel The Promenade Queen.
Although few particulars have been launched concerning the new movie — together with if Janiak will likely be concerned within the writing of the scripts – the e-book’s official description was posted through Stine’s web site in January.
After six years at Netflix, Stranger Issues is on the point of wrap up its journey with a fifth and closing season. Forward of the present’s highly-anticipated season 4 premiere, creators Matt and Ross Duffer introduced that they had been going to finish the sequence after another chapter in Hawkins, Indiana. “Seven years in the past, we deliberate […]
“A spring evening…smooth moonlight…5 stunning Promenade Queen candidates…dancing {couples} on the Shadyside Excessive promenade — these ought to be the components for love,” the logline reads. “However stir in a single brutal homicide — then one other, and one other — and the recipe shortly turns to horror.Lizzie McVay realizes that somebody is murdering the 5 Promenade Queen candidates one after the other — and that she could also be subsequent on the record! Can she cease the assassin earlier than the dance is over — for good?”
